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00:01:09.000All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:21.000I'm very excited about this next segment, and it's with two great Americans.
00:01:26.000Their names are Chase and Sarah Gibson.
00:01:29.000They are owners of Grooveberry's Froyo Shop in Idaho, and they have quite the story to tell.
00:01:37.000They have attempted in their way to honor Charlie, and it has not been a straight line of a story, but they are great patriots, and we wanted to honor them.
00:01:46.000When I found out about the story, I, you know, I tweeted about it.
00:01:49.000I tried to let people know so they could support this business.
00:01:52.000But I want to hear about it from them themselves.
00:03:28.000I didn't have enough room in my shop to follow the yogurt, to be honest.
00:03:32.000I had to make multiple trips actually out to our suppliers just to make sure I had enough to keep going, which thank goodness for our powerhouse tailor machines back here.
00:03:47.000I just love having you guys on the show because it sort of feels, Blake, like our version of what President Trump was trying to do last night at the State of the Union.
00:05:50.000Basically, just in general, the whole experience has been lots of great and then mixed in with just, I would say the support has been way overshadowed.
00:06:43.000And I mean, just to highlight how much support we were getting too, I mean, there was people calling in with their credit card numbers asking how can they help pay it forward.
00:06:52.000Or, you know, we had coined the blueberry budget.
00:06:56.000I'm sure you remember Gigi's blueberry budget.
00:06:59.000And we donated, yeah, from the day we started up until Charlie's birthday, we donated 25% of our Charlie Kirk related sales directly to Erica Kirk for the blueberry budget.
00:07:12.000And then now going forward, we've been donating 5% to our local turning point chapters and Club America chapters.
00:07:19.000And we just had the turning point chapter for Northern Idaho College here yesterday using our space just to watch the state of the unit address.
00:07:28.000So it's very cool to be able to support these groups.
00:07:33.000And I think Club of America is a pretty big one that we're really getting super stoked to help out with.
00:07:40.000Well, I just want to highlight for the folks at home, you know, you guys did this because you are strong Christians that believe that you are called to spread the gospel in whatever realm that you're in.
00:07:53.000You have a grooveberry froyo shop in Cordelaine, Idaho.
00:07:56.000So, you're spreading the gospel there and you're standing up.
00:08:01.000You're supporting Club America, Turning Point.
00:08:05.000We got about a minute remaining, guys.
00:08:07.000I want to just first say, please support them.
00:08:10.000If you're in that area of the woods, neck of the woods, please go buy Grooveberries Froyo shop.
00:08:14.000If you're driving through, maybe you're going to live in Seattle and you're driving to go ski in Montana or something, drive through, stop by Grooveberries.
00:10:20.000Charlie believed in finding good people and connecting them with other good people that he cared about.
00:10:24.000When someone truly took care of him, Charlie would never hesitate to recommend them.
00:10:28.000Andrew Del Rey and Todd of Aiken were two of those people.
00:10:31.000They personally helped Charlie and Erica with their mortgage needs, and Charlie trusted them completely.
00:10:36.000Whether it was a home buyer trying to qualify or someone needing to consolidate debt or see if they could get a lower rate in payments, these were the guys Charlie sent people to.
00:11:41.000Well, so obviously there are a lot of proposals around the country to honor Charlie in various ways because of his accomplishments and, of course, his martyrdom.
00:11:54.000We have one here in Arizona where we're hoping to name the 202 loop that goes right around this area after him.
00:12:00.000But one of the proposals was in Texas.
00:12:08.000And they had a proposal to designate FM 969, which is about a 29-mile stretch of highway going from the town of Bastrup to the Austin area.
00:12:19.000And they're going to call it the Charlie Kirk Corridor.
00:13:19.000I would have preferred had he never even put the motion up in the first place than to be cowed by a couple dozen activists that don't want their highway named after Charlie Kirk.
00:13:30.000It's an absolute insult to the people of Texas, the great state of Texas.
00:13:33.000To your point, Blake, everything outside of Austin is ruby red.
00:14:07.000But the fact that the left is so insane right now that they can't celebrate Charlie, who died debating by inviting open debate on college campuses, who didn't, he did nothing wrong.
00:14:21.000He did everything right, and they've got a problem with it is obscene.
00:14:26.000And this man should have held the line and he should have fought back and should have pushed back and said, thank you for your comments.
00:14:58.000It's like some held signs that read no to show their opposition.
00:15:02.000And then Commissioner David Glass, he's quoted in this article from The Hill, and he just says, I'm going to take a breath and have some more conversations with my constituents after this showed up.
00:15:14.000And he was the one who originally put it on the voting block.
00:15:18.000And just, again, if you couldn't anticipate that there would be angry liberals who would turn out to trash Charlie, to trash his legacy, to smear him, and to oppose this.
00:16:20.000It's appalling, and they are telling themselves this lie.
00:16:24.000And so this is why this is important, Blake, because when you will not honor Charlie, a victim of political violence, a martyr for American free speech, a Christian martyr, when you won't do that, you are denying that you have a problem of political violence.
00:16:38.000You're burying your head in the sand and you're not acknowledging it.
00:16:42.000And they keep telling themselves this lie.
00:17:14.000Like it's like that Nazi article the other day in The Atlantic, where they're calling you a Nazi because that is their excuse to treat you horribly, to scream at you.
00:17:25.000And it's all projection from top to bottom.
00:17:27.000They're the ones who want to censor speech.
00:17:29.000They're the ones who would try to cancel Charlie's events.
00:17:31.000They're the ones who would try to scream him off the platform.
00:17:35.000They're endlessly, they tried to tear him down while he was alive.
00:17:38.000They tried to tear him down now that he's a martyr.
00:18:01.000Previously, I thought the best speech he had ever given was the 2020 State of the Union, right before COVID hijacked the country in the election.
00:18:09.000I was in the room that day, and he blew the roof off the place.
00:18:27.000I thought he laid out a roadmap for getting through the next nine months, winning the election.
00:18:32.000And the question that I now have is: are Republicans in Congress willing to do what they need to do to keep that momentum and follow that roadmap so they don't get blown out in November?
00:18:42.000And Sean, do you think Republicans in the Senate are going to have that do what is necessary to maintain that momentum?
00:18:50.000I know you've been commenting on that online.
00:18:52.000Yeah, Blake, I'm going to take the under on that one.
00:18:55.000I don't have a whole lot of confidence, but hey, like we've got nine months.
00:20:00.000And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act to stop illegal aliens and others who are unpermitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections.
00:20:21.000And Leader Thun was asked about that this morning on Fox.
00:21:37.000And even worse, he is allowing Democrats to block the Save America Act and to block voter ID by doing nothing.
00:21:44.000He's basically saying the default here is that we don't do anything unless we have 60 votes.
00:21:48.000We're not going to require Democrats to come and control the floor and actually talk about why they're opposing it.
00:21:53.000We're just going to let them vote once and block it, and then we're going to move on to other things like permitting reform, whatever, whatever some corporate K-Street lobbyist wants.
00:22:18.000Yeah, I noticed as far as failure theater goes, the sort of pre-defeat, pre-defeated lines he was using.
00:22:25.000He's saying, we'll get them on the record.
00:22:26.000They'll have to account for their vote in November.
00:22:30.000But like, the Save Act is not about holding Democrats accountable for their votes.
00:22:33.000It is about requiring voter ID in an election.
00:22:37.000It is about taking steps to prevent potential fraud or the easy signing up of dubious votes.
00:22:43.000And as you say, the whole thing, it's a song and dance you and I know we've heard for decades.
00:22:50.000It is just the, it's that sort of fake Senate, the fake Congress, where since the default is nothing will pass other than omnibus spending bills, everything else is phony.
00:23:00.000And that's actually, that's the best argument for getting rid of the filibuster is we should have a Congress that actually does things again.
00:23:07.000And the only way that will happen is if they can pass votes by a majority vote.
00:23:11.000Yeah, so I probably disagree on getting rid of the filibuster because I don't think you need to get rid of it.
00:23:16.000The problem with Republicans in the Senate is they're just lazy.
00:25:40.000It's not much to see, but it's like all K-Street lobbyists.
00:25:45.000It's all these special interests taking, whining and dining.
00:25:49.000They have to pay all this money to get a membership.
00:25:51.000And you just go into this place and your skin starts crawling because you can feel the dubious backroom deals getting like hatched right in front of your eyes.
00:26:00.000And they took me there so that I could see it.
00:26:17.000It was the Capitol Hill Club, I think between C and D Street on 1st Street, Southeast and right across from the Canon Building there.
00:26:25.000Yeah, yeah, that is where they do their deals.
00:26:27.000It's where they hang out with each other and have a good time and try to think up all the ways they're going to screw the American public or try to pull the wool over our eyes by not doing what they said.
00:26:35.000And that's what people are so frustrated with.
00:26:38.000And I think it's one reason why Trump has been such a breath of fresh air in politics is the guy says he's going to do something and then he does it.
00:26:46.000Like, what a revolutionary idea in politics to say you're going to do something and then do it.
00:26:52.000And the thing about midterm elections is they are base elections.
00:26:55.000You have to give your base a reason to turn out.
00:26:58.000Yes, Democrats are crazy people who hate America.
00:27:01.000We get that, but you can't just win on negative vibes against the other side.
00:27:05.000You have to get your people jacked up on successes that you've pushed through to get them to fight and come to the polls for you.
00:27:12.000This is, I think, the central message of today's show.
00:28:44.000Look, I think when you look at the way that President Trump undertook that speech for pretty much every single section of it, he was taking those issues that are right down the middle.
00:28:55.000It was, you know, a fastball right down the middle was like pitching during a home run derby.
00:29:00.000Of course, they orchestrated it this way to create this trap for the Democrats that, you know, I dare you to be against this.
00:29:08.000I dare you to be against American citizens.
00:29:10.000I dare you to be against America heroes.
00:29:12.000Even having Erica there, Erica with Irina Zarutska, which is just, it blew my brains to be with the parents of Arina Zarutzka, to be sitting there.
00:29:22.000And in fact, Blake and I were in the chat during the speech.
00:29:27.000We're saying, we're saying, can you tell who Erica is sitting next to?
00:29:30.000We couldn't, you know, we didn't recognize them.
00:29:35.000That's my, I haven't talked to her about it, but they, you know, I talked to her before, and she was like, I'm going in solo, you know, because it's such limited seeds.
00:29:45.000And so you go in there and it was kind of like, you know, here's the president's area, but you don't, it's not like they introduced you to the future.
00:29:52.000I figured that it wasn't done by chance, though.
00:31:47.000I mean, he doesn't show signs of it, but I mean, just I think maybe take us into the room.
00:31:53.000What, I mean, that balancing act he has to do between making these incredibly difficult decisions in Iran or whatever, as well as having to be showman in chief, having to be the lead cheerleader for the first time.
00:32:04.000This is something that I think everyone needs to understand: is that as much as he enjoys putting on the show, he is the greatest showman.
00:32:11.000There's no question that he takes this all very seriously.
00:32:15.000And when he meets with victims, like he spent the day with the Angel families, meeting with Irina Zarutka's parents, meeting with Erica, who, you know, and they still talk regularly, that checking in by the way that he does, he takes this very personally, very, honestly, he's a much more emotional guy than I think people give him credit for.
00:32:35.000Oh, yeah, because he could be doing anything else with his life.
00:32:40.000And people are trying to kill him on a regular basis.
00:33:09.000I don't, you know, we're on set here, but you realize the weight of the world on President Trump.
00:33:15.000It's got to be an impossible balancing act.
00:33:17.000And I don't think we personalize him enough sometimes.
00:33:19.000Yeah, well, I sometimes think about that.
00:33:22.000It's got to be one of the most alien experiences in the world for the president that even when he's not president, he's been the most famous person in the world.
00:33:32.000I think you could safely say for a decade at this point.
00:33:37.000He has endless people who are talking to him, endless people who are trying to influence him, endless people who are trying to flatter him.
00:33:45.000And it does have, and he is endlessly seeing himself on TV, and he knows there's a lot of people who would want him dead.
00:33:54.000I truly do wonder what would it be like to be that person.
00:33:58.000It's got to be one of the most unusual existences that anyone has ever lived in the history of the world.
00:34:04.000And the fact that he's delivered on as much as he has in the past year, I think we should always be grateful in that context that he could very easily have said, he could have very easily made a call to a Democrat and said, I will go away and retire forever if you guys just leave me $3 billion and stop trying to put me in jail.